Who wrote the Old Testament? The 480 years of Kingdom of the Davidic dynasty

This really frequent question rarely finds an appropriate explication. In Laurence Gardner’s book, “Lost secrets of the sacred ark”, the story of the Old Testament is told looking through the eye of the objective historian, with a great reputation and credibility in his domain.

The Old Testament was written by the Hebrew scribes during the Babylonian captivity, starting with 586 B.C. As a landmark, the Hebrews’ escape from Egypt under the guidance of Moose, a very important episode from the Bible, took place during the kingdom of the pharaoh Ramses I, who ruled for only one year. He died at a short time after his becoming a pharaoh, moment that coincides with the biblical story of the death of the pharaoh who started chasing the chosen people, at the time already out of Egypt. These facts took place around 1335 BC. more than 1250 years before the Hebrew scribes wrote the story.

One of the biggest problems the scribes had been the missing historical notes for at least four centuries, so they established a standard period of kingdom of 40 years for every king belonging to the Davidic dynasty. This is the reason why David and Solomon have ruled, according to the Biblical story, the same time period. So the time of 480 years of kingdom that in the Bible belongs to the Davidic dynasty is a very discussible and relative fact.